Create an illustrated description of the answer to the question below.
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The assembling of the page, however, into a cohesive story is uniquely your own.
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Question: How do the prevailing wind patterns impact your country?

Use these terms in your illustration: trade winds, westerlies, tropical easterlies, high pressure zone, low pressure zone, Coriolis effect, jet stream, Hadley cells.


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Figure 1

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Figure 2


Figure 1. The prevailing winds around Australia in the southern winter are controlled by two patches of high pressure, one located over the central southern half of Australia and the other well out in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Figure 2. The continental high brings hot dry air up from the south. The southern edge of the south east trade winds bring moist rains to the northern edge of Australia.